“And then do something like Graham-Cassidy to correct things long term, I think that's a good direction,” he said.

“If you take the totality of what the president did, I think it actually helps the family,” he added. “So, those who are lowest income, the payments will still — the subsidies will still go to insurance companies for them to buy their coverage."

He also refuted anchor James Rosen’s description of Trump’s executive order as one “effectively to gut” Obamacare.

“The president is not gutting the Affordable Care Act,” Cassidy replied.

“Let's just take the cost-sharing reduction payments as one example. They’re unconstitutional.... If there's something, which is damaging the credibility of the Affordable Care Act, is these premiums which are unaffordable, not that which the president is doing."